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202. Taraba transandeana transandeana (Sclater). Holland's Ant-Shrikp. 



Male, Rio Siri, twenty miles from Gatun, November 19, 1911, and 

 female, Gatun, March 29, 1911. Iris brownish-orange, bill black, 

 feet bluish-gray. Female, Gatun, March 29, 1911. Iris red-orange. 



Stomach of latter specimen contained many ants and a lizard three 

 inches and a half in length, the legs and tail of which had been cut 

 off and swallowed separately. 



203. Thamnophilus radiatus nigxicristatus (Lawrence). Black-crested Ant-Shrike. 



Male, Tabernilla, March 19, 1911. Iris dull greenish-yellow, bill 

 black above, bluish below, feet dark-bluish. Female, Gatun, April 

 30, 1911. Iris light yellow. 



Found in clearings near the jungle. 



204. Erionotus punctatus atrinucha (Salvin and Godman). Slaty Ant-Shrike. 



Two males and two females, Gatun, July 30, 1911, February 11, 

 1912, and May 7, May 30, 1911. Iris brown, bill black above blue- 

 gray below, feet grayish-blue. 



Nest found May 7, 1911, in the horizontal fork of a horizontal limb, 

 twelve feet from the ground, in a thick jungle. A very frail and 

 pensile cup of grass stalks covered over on the sides loosely but heav- 

 ily with fuzzy green moss, bottom so thin that there seemed danger of 

 the eggs falling through. Contained one egg, .64 x .85 in., white, 

 with a broad wreath of rufous brown spots at the larger end. 



A bird of the jungle. 



205. Microrhopias boucardi virgata (Lawrence). Panama Ant-Wren. 



Female, Gatun, January 21, 1912. Iris black, bill black wath blue 

 tomial stripe, feet blue-gray. 



A noisy, active, arboreal species, an inhabitant of the jungle. 



206. Myrmotherula surinamensis (Gmelin). Surinam Ant-Wren. 



Female, Rio Siri, March 31, 1912. Iris brown, bill brownish-black 

 paler below, feet blue-gray. 



Found in a clearing along the bank of the river. Nest pensile at 

 end of slender branch six feet from ground, made of fine grasses with 

 curtain of green moss on exposed side. Eggs two, July 13, 1912, 

 .67 x .51 and .69 x .53 in., grayish-white, heavily speckled, mottled and 

 washed with shades of cinnamon-brown, with a heavier wreath around 

 the larger end. 



[207.] Myrmotherula pygmaea (Gmelin). Pigmy Ant-Wren. 

 208. Cercomacra nigricans Sclater. Black Tyrannine Antbird. 



Two males. Colon, February 25, 1913, Toro Point, August 4, 1912. 

 Iris brown, bill black, feet slaty. 



